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India’s National Youth Consultation on the Post-2015 Agenda: YOUth Matters
This blog post originally appeared on the Global Education First Initiative website on 16 May 2013. By Sumaya Saluja, Youth Advocacy Group member of the Global Education First Initiative In December 2012, civil society, with the technical support of the … Continue reading
The New Standard = All Girls Learning and Achieving
This blog post originally appeared in the Education for All Blog of the Global Partnership for Education on 30 April 2013. A call to action to promote gender equality in education This is a joint blog by Nora Fyles, Yona Nestel and Koli Banik … Continue reading
Let’s Hear it for the Girls
This blog post originally appeared on Cisco’s blog site on 25 April 2013. By Blair Christie, Chief Marketing and Communications Officer & Worldwide Government Affairs, Cisco Systems Girls and careers in information communications technology (ICT). A contradiction? Unfortunately that is … Continue reading
Child Friendly School Clubs and the Potential for Gender Equality: Notes from the Field
This blog post originally appeared on the UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Blog site on 22 April 2013. By Chemba Raghavan, Regional Focal Point for the East Asia and Pacific Regional UN Girls’ Education Initiative Last month, Dr. Cliff Meyers (UNICEF’s Regional … Continue reading
Dancing to end violence against women and girls
This blog post originally appeared on the UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Blog site on 15 March 2013. By Jessica Aumann, Communications Officer, East Asia and Pacific Regional UNGEI Jessica Aumann, Communications Officer for the UN Girls Education Initiative, attends a commemoration … Continue reading
International Women’s Day 2013: East Asia and Pacific
This video blog post originally appeared on the UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Blog site on 7 March 2013. International Women’s Day is celebrated on 8 March 2013. This year’s theme is ‘action to end violence against women’. UNICEF’s gender specialist for … Continue reading
Getting at the Everyday Reality of Violence in Girls’ Lives
On International Women’s Day: How Do We Get Girls in School Safely? By Nora Fyles Earlier this year, I read an interview with a secondary school girl about her experiences commuting to school in rural Uganda. Her message has stayed … Continue reading
Promoting Girls’ Education by Tackling Child Labour
By Patrick Quinn From October to May, Jyontna works in the desolate salt pans of western India, where her parents earn their living raking salt crystals from the ground. The cracked, dry seabed stretches endlessly in every direction. Jyontna and … Continue reading